Public Sector Contracts in the Midlands

Public Sector
England > Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in contract job vacancies in the Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Public Sector over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 14 12
Rank change year-on-year -6 -2 -1
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 130 240 408
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 6.79% 8.71% 11.85%
As % of the General category 10.89% 15.86% 21.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 166 351
10th Percentile £213 £200 £200
25th Percentile £393 £358 £347
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £569 £550 £628
90th Percentile £612 £625 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% +6.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 14 16
10th Percentile - £12.05 £12.66
25th Percentile £14.70 £12.75 £15.06
Median hourly rate £16.44 £16.80 £17.85
Median % change year-on-year -2.14% -5.91% +5.00%
75th Percentile £18.44 £21.17 £21.31
90th Percentile £21.30 £35.00 £25.44
England median hourly rate £22.27 £22.12 £20.00
% change year-on-year +0.70% +10.58% -

All General Skills
Midlands

Public Sector falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring common skills in the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,194 1,513 1,920
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 62.38% 54.88% 55.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 778 1,034 1,359
10th Percentile £190 £207 £213
25th Percentile £343 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £488 £480
Median % change year-on-year -4.10% +1.56% +2.67%
75th Percentile £550 £611 £588
90th Percentile £650 £738 £688
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 167 83
10th Percentile £13.98 £11.75 £11.80
25th Percentile £14.16 £13.90 £13.31
Median hourly rate £18.88 £17.50 £20.32
Median % change year-on-year +7.90% -13.88% +14.80%
75th Percentile £30.00 £38.13 £32.13
90th Percentile £34.24 £53.80 £51.50
England median hourly rate £27.50 £30.16 £33.82
% change year-on-year -8.82% -10.82% +57.30%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Public Sector as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in the Midlands

Public Sector
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Public Sector in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Public Sector in the Midlands

Public Sector
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Public Sector in the Midlands

Public Sector
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Public Sector in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Public Sector in the Midlands

Public Sector
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Public Sector in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Public Sector in the Midlands

Public Sector
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Public Sector within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands -4 108 £454 -9.26% 100
East Midlands -19 22 £500 +81.82% 75
Public Sector
England

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (2.31%) R Markdown
2 2 (1.54%) Confluence
2 2 (1.54%) IIS
2 2 (1.54%) Oracle Self-Service HR
2 2 (1.54%) Oracle Workflow
2 2 (1.54%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.77%) CMS
3 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.77%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (3.85%) SAP HR
2 4 (3.08%) SAP Payroll
3 2 (1.54%) Oracle HRMS
4 1 (0.77%) Primavera
4 1 (0.77%) SAP PSCD
Cloud Services
1 15 (11.54%) Azure
2 10 (7.69%) AWS
2 10 (7.69%) Power Platform
3 6 (4.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 6 (4.62%) Amazon S3
3 6 (4.62%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (3.85%) SuccessFactors
5 4 (3.08%) Adobe Analytics
5 4 (3.08%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (3.08%) Amazon SQS
5 4 (3.08%) Google Analytics
6 3 (2.31%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (2.31%) AWS KMS
6 3 (2.31%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (2.31%) Power Automate
6 3 (2.31%) PowerApps
6 3 (2.31%) Route 53
7 2 (1.54%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (1.54%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (1.54%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.15%) VPN
1 8 (6.15%) WAN
2 7 (5.38%) IPsec
2 7 (5.38%) MPLS
3 6 (4.62%) BGP
4 4 (3.08%) Firewall
5 2 (1.54%) Intranet
5 2 (1.54%) Network Security
5 2 (1.54%) NGFW
5 2 (1.54%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (1.54%) Wireless
6 1 (0.77%) 4G
6 1 (0.77%) 5G
6 1 (0.77%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (0.77%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.77%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 1 (0.77%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 1 (0.77%) Junos
6 1 (0.77%) LTE
6 1 (0.77%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.15%) Power BI
2 6 (4.62%) Amazon Aurora
2 6 (4.62%) DynamoDB
2 6 (4.62%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (3.08%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (2.31%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.54%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (1.54%) Metadata
5 2 (1.54%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.54%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (1.54%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.54%) Tableau
6 1 (0.77%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.77%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 1 (0.77%) Spark SQL
6 1 (0.77%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 8 (6.15%) Jenkins
2 6 (4.62%) JUnit
2 6 (4.62%) Maven
3 4 (3.08%) JIRA
3 4 (3.08%) Mockito
4 3 (2.31%) Bitbucket Server
4 3 (2.31%) DbUnit
4 3 (2.31%) Git
4 3 (2.31%) jMock
4 3 (2.31%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.54%) GitLab
6 1 (0.77%) Appium
6 1 (0.77%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.77%) JBehave
6 1 (0.77%) Selenium
6 1 (0.77%) Serenity BDD
6 1 (0.77%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.77%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.77%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.77%) WebDriver
General
1 35 (26.92%) Social Skills
2 13 (10.00%) Finance
3 10 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (5.38%) Local Government
5 6 (4.62%) Marketing
6 5 (3.85%) Back Office
7 4 (3.08%) Brand Awareness
7 4 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (3.08%) Law
7 4 (3.08%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.31%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.31%) Military
9 2 (1.54%) Electronics
9 2 (1.54%) Legal
10 1 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (11.54%) Architect
1 15 (11.54%) Developer
2 13 (10.00%) Analyst
3 10 (7.69%) Lead
3 10 (7.69%) Network Engineer
4 9 (6.92%) Support Engineer
5 8 (6.15%) IT Support
6 7 (5.38%) Consultant
6 7 (5.38%) Support Analyst
7 6 (4.62%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 6 (4.62%) 2nd Line Support
7 6 (4.62%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 6 (4.62%) Java Developer
7 6 (4.62%) Senior
8 5 (3.85%) 1st Line Support
8 5 (3.85%) Data Engineer
8 5 (3.85%) Project Manager
9 4 (3.08%) Junior
9 4 (3.08%) SAP HR Consultant
9 4 (3.08%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.92%) Web Services
2 7 (5.38%) REST
2 7 (5.38%) SOAP
3 6 (4.62%) .NET
3 6 (4.62%) ActiveMQ
3 6 (4.62%) Hibernate
3 6 (4.62%) JPA
3 6 (4.62%) Spring
3 6 (4.62%) Spring Boot
4 5 (3.85%) AngularJS
4 5 (3.85%) Bootstrap
4 5 (3.85%) Spring Batch
4 5 (3.85%) Spring Integration
5 4 (3.08%) Spring Cloud
6 3 (2.31%) HTML
6 3 (2.31%) PowerMock
6 3 (2.31%) RESTful
6 3 (2.31%) Shiny
7 2 (1.54%) Middleware
7 2 (1.54%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.38%) PKI
2 5 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (3.85%) Social Media
3 3 (2.31%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.54%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.54%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (1.54%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (0.77%) Animation
5 1 (0.77%) Blog
5 1 (0.77%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.77%) Credit Risk
5 1 (0.77%) Digital Media
5 1 (0.77%) Digital Signage
5 1 (0.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (0.77%) Graphic Design
5 1 (0.77%) Housing Association
5 1 (0.77%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.77%) Learning Management System
5 1 (0.77%) NHS
5 1 (0.77%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.85%) Windows
2 4 (3.08%) Linux
3 2 (1.54%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (25.38%) Agile
2 20 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
3 13 (10.00%) Decision-Making
3 13 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (9.23%) Analytics
4 12 (9.23%) Business Intelligence
5 11 (8.46%) DevOps
6 9 (6.92%) Customer Service
6 9 (6.92%) Data Analysis
6 9 (6.92%) Project Management
6 9 (6.92%) Software Engineering
7 8 (6.15%) Business Case
7 8 (6.15%) Change Management
7 8 (6.15%) Data Analytics
7 8 (6.15%) Mentoring
7 8 (6.15%) TDD
8 7 (5.38%) CI/CD
8 7 (5.38%) Microservices
8 7 (5.38%) Project Delivery
8 7 (5.38%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 20 (15.38%) SQL
2 10 (7.69%) Java
3 9 (6.92%) Python
4 5 (3.85%) C#
4 5 (3.85%) PowerShell
5 3 (2.31%) JavaScript
5 3 (2.31%) R
6 2 (1.54%) Bash
6 2 (1.54%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (1.54%) VB
6 2 (1.54%) VBA
7 1 (0.77%) ABAP
7 1 (0.77%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.77%) COBOL
7 1 (0.77%) Scala
Qualifications
1 45 (34.62%) Security Cleared
2 24 (18.46%) SC Cleared
3 11 (8.46%) Degree
4 5 (3.85%) DV Cleared
5 4 (3.08%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.31%) DBS Check
6 3 (2.31%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (2.31%) TOGAF Certification
7 2 (1.54%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.54%) CCNA
7 2 (1.54%) CCNP
7 2 (1.54%) Tableau Certification
8 1 (0.77%) CCIE
8 1 (0.77%) CITP
8 1 (0.77%) OCP
8 1 (0.77%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.15%) SLA
2 7 (5.38%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.08%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.08%) GDPR
4 3 (2.31%) NCSC
4 3 (2.31%) WCAG
5 2 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.54%) PMO
6 1 (0.77%) GRC
6 1 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.77%) NIST
6 1 (0.77%) QA
6 1 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 9 (6.92%) Docker
2 8 (6.15%) Active Directory
3 4 (3.08%) Postfix
4 1 (0.77%) BitLocker
4 1 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (5.38%) Grafana
2 6 (4.62%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.62%) Terraform
3 5 (3.85%) Ansible
3 5 (3.85%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.54%) SCCM
5 1 (0.77%) Nessus
Vendors
1 17 (13.08%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.38%) Juniper
2 7 (5.38%) SAP
3 6 (4.62%) Adobe
3 6 (4.62%) Cisco
4 5 (3.85%) Jaspersoft
4 5 (3.85%) Motorola
4 5 (3.85%) Oracle
5 4 (3.08%) Citrix
5 4 (3.08%) Google
6 3 (2.31%) Atlassian
6 3 (2.31%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.54%) Databricks
7 2 (1.54%) Nexthink
7 2 (1.54%) SolarWinds
7 2 (1.54%) UiPath
8 1 (0.77%) Ericsson
8 1 (0.77%) Huawei
8 1 (0.77%) Tenable
8 1 (0.77%) VMware